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Holy Luck

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Throughout his many years in pastoral ministry, and as one of today's leading spiritual writers, Eugene Peterson has found that almost everything he does as a pastor -- preaching, teaching, praying, counselling, writing; involves words. To keep himself attuned to the power of words and to help him use language accurately and well, Peterson both reads and writes poetry. Holy Luck presents three inspirational collections of Peterson's poems, most of which have never before been published, in one transcendent volume: Holy Luck (poems based on the Beatitudes) The Rustling Grass (poems about uncovering the Kingdom of God in the ordinary) Smooth Stones (occasional poems about 'discovering significance in every detail encountered while following Jesus')

Holy Luck by Eugene Peterson; Eugene H. Peterson was published by Canterbury Press in April 2014 and is our 13585th best seller. The ISBN for Holy Luck is 9781848256248.

Reviews of Holy Luck

Holy Luck

Eugene H. Peterson is of course the person behind The Message Bible. He is also author of a number of good books on pastoral ministry and theology, so this little book of his personal religious poetry is well worth a look at, as much for his introduction—which though short nevertheless raises some very interesting points on the Bible as poetry, on the concept of metaphor, on poetry and it's use and presence and most of all on language and imagination in a pastors life—as for anything else.

The 70 poems themselves are all short, and are divided into three categories based around The Beautitudes, The Kingdom of God in the Everyday, and finally, Grace and Mystery throughout the times and seasons of life.

The majority of them begin with the scripture that inspired them, and the poems themselves are written, as perhaps one would expect, in a very modern tone, some with modern colliquialisms that might almost jar. After all, not often one expects references to 'Green eggs and ham' in a poem entitled 'Yes and Amen and Jesus' and yet it fits.

Some are easy to understand and grasp on first reading, while others though take more time, and require numerous readings, and may involve stopping and reflecting on the Bible passage more to see the correlation and point and really understand the direction the poet is going. And that is another reason to read these poems—because poetry shouldn't always be easy, and the Bible should always make us think...

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